But the horses, the horses--never to have seen any great four-footed things, and now these that were proud and pawed the earth and neighed and--De Ojeda's black horse--reared, curvetted, bounded, appeared to threaten! The eyes, the mane, the great teeth!--There grew a legend that they were fed upon men's flesh, red men's flesh! How many red men were in Quisquaya I do not know.

In some regions they dwelled thickly, in others were few folk.

In this wide, long, laughing plain dwelled many, in clean towns sunk among trees good to look at and dropping fruit; by river or smaller stream, with plantings of maize, batata, cassava, jucca, maguey, and I know not what beside.

If the stream was a considerable one, canoes.

They had parrots; they had the small silent dogs.